Seattle Mariners vs Detroit Tigers
May 15, 1978 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 15, 1978 at Tiger Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Seattle Mariners and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

"The box score is the catechism of baseball, ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye." - Author Stanley Cohen in The Man in the Crowd (1981)
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Seattle Mariners 2, Detroit Tigers 4

Seattle Mariners ab   r   h rbi
Cruz 2b 3 1 0 0
Reynolds ss 3 0 1 1
Braun dh 3 1 1 0
Bochte lf 3 0 1 0
Jones cf 3 0 0 0
Stein 3b 2 0 0 1
Hale rf 3 0 0 0
Bernhardt 1b 3 0 1 0
Plummer c 2 0 1 0
  Stinson ph,c 1 0 0 0
Abbott p 0 0 0 0
  House p 0 0 0 0
Totals 26 2 5 2
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
LeFlore cf 4 0 0 0
Whitaker 2b 4 1 1 0
Staub dh 4 1 2 0
Thompson 1b 4 1 2 1
Kemp lf 3 0 0 0
May c 2 1 1 3
Corcoran rf 3 0 2 0
Mankowski 3b 1 0 0 0
  Rodriguez ph,3b 1 0 0 0
Trammell ss 3 0 0 0
Slaton p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 4 8 4
Seattle 000 200 000250
Detroit 100 300 00x481
  Seattle Mariners IP H R ER BB SO
Abbott  L (1-2) 3.1 6 4 4 1 1
  House   4.2 2 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
8
4
4
1
2
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Slaton  W (4-1) 9.0 5 2 2 4 3
Totals
9.0
5
2
2
4
3

  E–Slaton (2).  DP–Seattle 1, Detroit 3.  2B–Seattle Bochte (7,off Slaton), Detroit Thompson (6,off Abbott); Corcoran 2 (2,off Abbott,off House); Staub (5,off House).  HR–Detroit May (6,4th inning off Abbott 2 on, 1 out).  SF–Reynolds (3,off Slaton); Stein (4,off Slaton).  IBB–Ruppert Jones (2,by Slaton).  SH–Rodriguez (1,off House).  SB–Cruz (11,2nd base off Slaton/May).  CS–Bernhardt (1,2nd base by Slaton/May).  IBB–Slaton (1,Ruppert Jones).  U-HP–Marty Springstead, 1B–Larry Barnett, 2B–Jim Evans, 3B–Durwood Merrill.  T–1:49.  A–8,412.
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